N.Y. unemployment rate falls to 8.2%; job counts hits record high

8:11 PM,
Apr. 18, 2013

Written by

Haley Viccaro
| Albany Bureau

New York's unemployment rate dropped from 8.4 percent to 8.2 percent between February and March with the state reaching an all-time high in private-sector jobs this year, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday.

The state added more than 14,000 private-sector jobs in March, bringing the job count to a record high of 7.4 million. The unemployment rate in the state outside of New York City fell from 7.9 percent to 7.7 percent in March compared to the previous month.

"In March, the New York state economy improved as our seasonally adjusted private-sector job count grew by 14,100, or 0.2 ...